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​FILE PHOTO: Afghan women clad in burkas wait for transportation on a road in Kabul November 5, 2012.
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UN: Taliban criminalizes sights and sounds of women

On Sunday, the United Nations condemned new laws enacted by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue that prohibit the display of women’s faces and bodies in public and said that “even the sound of a female voice” outside the home constitutes “a moral violation” and can be grounds for arrest.